Latest Works

Josephine G Cambridge

Nov 164 min read

On the Seafloor

My mind, memories, and soul came into being—like waking up, only somehow, I was already awake. My dim cabin aboard the Samsa was more...

Tyler King

Nov 162 min read

virgo

cough in your throat, snake in the woodpile, outside, the poets remember too loudly— quiet, please, time is passing. every morning cracks...

D. J. Bates

Nov 165 min read

Echoes of Solitude

It was time to venture out again. He didn’t particularly enjoy these journeys, but at least they were a reason to escape the monotony...

Mark Connelly

Nov 164 min read

Return of the Callaghans

Jessica parked her Tesla in the drive. Planning to meet Mike at Luigi’s for drinks after a quick shower and change, she didn’t bother to...

Spencer Keene

Nov 161 min read

Scene from a Graveyard

The moon casts her milky drape over stoney gardens—shadowed with crosses stretching the grass. My blistered tongue whispers, entreats...

Zary Fekete

Nov 169 min read

Missionary Childhood

When my father was teaching me how to ride a bike, he also taught me about sin. We lived in Vienna, just having arrived from Minnesota....

Tinamarie Cox

Nov 161 min read

Restless

I live in the house my grandfather built when he was young and strong, and filled with love and dreams. Where I lay me down to sleep was...

Christopher Woods

Nov 161 min read

Bearded Tree

We come to it After a walk Through a field Late afternoon Shadows closing in Sunlight already golden. Old tree, Its beard scraggly...

Maya Rose

Nov 162 min read

high desert

there is more than one way to look at it. outside the wood gift shop there is the desert, the gray hill but the scrub shivers like...

Christopher Woods

Nov 161 min read

Nayarit Night Houses

Perhaps they too were lonely, Not among themselves so much As among their own kind. Loneliness was a hand reaching Through the darkness...

Mahailey Oliver

Nov 162 min read

Despite Cupped Handfuls of Broken Teeth

Have you ever taught a lesson over symbolism to a room full of thirty-three teenagers while holding cupped handfuls of your own...

Marcel Feldmar

Nov 151 min read

this deep hatred of misery

such delightful isolation surrounding as my mind opens up like a gentle stab velvet car crash chewing on knives and I’m speechless...

Christopher Woods

Nov 151 min read

Pearlfisher

Where was he going All that time, Plunging deeper Toward dark water Minutes from the light? He must have known his chances, Hazards of...

Craig Kirchner

Nov 151 min read

Immanence

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free. ...

Hannah Birss

Nov 1510 min read

Communion

Historian’s Note : The following excerpts are from the journal of the nun Floriana de Olmedo as found within the library of St....